Receptacle for snelled fishhooks



Jan. 26, 1954 Q ANDERSON 2,667,010

RECEPTACLE FOR SNELLED FISHHOOKS .Filed Nov. 18, 1949 7 FIG. 2.

ORR/IV E. ANDERSON Patented Jan. 26, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,667,010 RECEPTACLE FOR SNELLED FISHHOOKS Orrin Elwood Anderson, Philadelphia, Pa. Application November 18, 1949, Serial No. 128,113

This invention relates to a receptacle for snelled fish hooks, and more particularly to an improved receptacle of the type having means for holding a number of hook and snell assemblies in spaced apart position relative to each other.

It is among the objects of the invention to provide a receptacle or container for snelled fish hooks which will support a large number of hook and leader or snell assemblies therein, in entirely separated relationship, and so that any selected assembly can be removed from the receptacle without in any way disturbing any of the other assemblies therein, and which receptacle is buoyant so that it will float in water, is simple and durable in construction and economical to manufacture, is neat and attractive in appearance, and can be easily opened and closed to expose and enclose the hook and snell assemblies mounted therein.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the following description and the appended claims in conjunction with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a snelled hook receptacle illustrative of the invention with the receptacle shown in open condition;

Figure 2 is an elevation on a somewhat enlarged scale of the receptacle, illustrating the receptacle in fully opened condition;

Figures 3 and 4 are both cross-sectional views on the line 3-3 of Figure 2 with the parts shown in somewhat difierent operative positions in the two figures;

Figure 5 is a cross section on the line 5-5 of Figure 2 of the receptacle when in closed condition;

Figure 6 is a cross section of a fragmentary portion of the receptacle taken on the line 66 of Figure 2;

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figures 3 and 4, but showing a somewhat modified component of the receptacle; and

Figure 8 is an elevation of a fragmentary portion of a modified form of hook and snell support for the snelled fish hook receptacle.

With continued reference to the drawing, the receptacle comprises an elongated, hollow, cylindrical casing, generally indicated at IU, having end walls H and I2 at its respectively opposite ends and formed in two semicylindrical sections I3 and M. The sections l3 and I4 are hinged together along corresponding edges by a suitable hinge, such as the piano type hinge I5, particularly illustrated in Figure 2, and the sections are 2 Claims. (Cl. 43-575) movable about the hinge connection therebetween between an open position in which their open sides are substantially in a common plane, as illustrated in Figure 2, and a closed position in which their hinged edges and their edges,

opposite such hinged edges are registeredand substantially in contact.

Suitable latch means, such as the leaf springs l6, are secured to one of the sections of the cylindrical casing opposite the hinged edge of such section, and these springs engage with detents provided on the other section of the casing to releasably secure the two sections of the casing together in closed position.

A hollow boss I1 is provided on the inner side of the end wall of the casing section l3 in position such that it is centrally disposed relative to the closed casing, and a recess I8 is provided in the corresponding end wall of the other section M to receive this boss when the two sections of the casing are in closed relationship.

An internally screw threaded boss I8 projects inwardly from the portion of the end wall |2 of the casing section H3 in position such that it is centrally disposed relative to the end wall l2 of the closed casing, and the end wall carried by the section I4 is provided with a recess I9 which receives the boss l8 when the sections I3 and M are in closed relationship.

A socket nut 20 is threaded into the boss l8 and this socket nut and the boss I I provide sockets which receive the respectively opposite ends of a rod 2| which extends within the casing between the end walls H and I2.

A solid cylindrical body 22 of easily penetrable material, such as cork, is mounted on the rod 2| near the boss [7, the longitudinal center lines of the cylindrical body 22, the rod 2| and the cylindrical casing I0 being substantially coincident when the casing is closed.

The cylindrical body 22 has a length materially shorter than one-half the length of the rod 2| and not much longer than the shanks of the fish hooks to be mounted in the receptacle. A disc 23, preferably of metal, concentrically surrounds the rod 2| and bears against the end of the body 22 remote from the boss I! and is positioned longitudinally of the rod by suitable means, such as the key 24 extending transversely through the rod and received in a recess in the surface of the plate 23 opposite the body 22. A washer 25 surrounds the rod 2| at the end of the body 22 opposite the disc 23, and a nut 26 threaded onto the externally screw threaded end portion 21 of the rod bears on the washer 25 and 3 clamps the body 22 between the washer and the disc 23.

The body 22 is provided in face with angularly spaced apart, longitudinally its peripheral surextending grooves 28 which grooves are continued through the peripheral edge portion of the disc 23, as indicated at 29, and receive the shanks of hooks 3D, the points of which are embedded in the end of the body 22 opposite the disc 23. The snells 31 extend from the ends of the hook shanks opposite the hook points longitudinally of the casing, and a disc 32 is secured on the rod at a location spaced from the disc 22 and is provided in its'l'peripheral edge portion with notches 33 which receive the snells 3| near the ends of the snells opposite'theho'oks 30.

The rod 2| screw threaded portion the end of the rod adjacent to the boss IE to the-mitl-lengthlocation of the rod, and the disc 32 has an internally screw threaded hub 35 whlch is threaded onto the sc'rew th'reajdedportion 34 1K therod, so that'the disc canbe adjusted longitudinally of the rod to accommodate the receptacle to difiere'nt lengths of sn'e'lls. A look nut 36 threaded on the rod atone side of the disc 32 serves to-lock the disc in adjust'ed position along the rod.

A thin walled, annular guard 37 of channel cross section marginally surrounds the 'disc andreceives the "peripheral: edge thereof to cover the-notches and is rotatable on the disc. guard has, at one Sidaadismntinuity 38 which can bez selectiv'ely brought into registry with the various notch'es 33'so that the shell of. any desired hook and snellassembly can be new. for removalfront the receptacle At one side of the discontinuity 33 the guard is provided with outwardly extending tongue 38 en'gage'able by a finger to rotate the guardon them-e32,

A-third or intermediate disc 48 isl-provided'with is provided with an externally.

34 which extends from This ' around this disc.

a central aperture whichslidably receives therc'd 2 l? and this 'diso'is adjustably "positioned-longitudinall'yo'f the rod by two nuts t l and l'd threaded: onto the rod-at respectively opposite sidesofathe' disc 40'. Anzannular 'row'fiiiof. bristles issecu red' in. the disc 46: and: pro'iectsrradially from -the periphery of the disc to engage the snells3l and hold these snells in: spaced apart relationship between; the-body 22v and the'disc 32-. The discs 23,240 and '32 are progressivelysmalier inl-diameter so that the snells are held in a =con e and intermediate portions of the shells are forced to bear agamstithe bristles 33- on the interinediate disc n as to be securely retainedinpositionl In order toassemble the receptacle, the dis'c 23;

cylinder 32, nut- 23, 'di's'c' tinutsli and 4'2',disc ori holde'rdfi and lock nut shaft 2 l, and the end of shaft 2 i adjacenthblder 32 is= then-inserted through. boss 3 with socket nut 2 0' 1ien 1oved. The opposite end of the shaft -is dare all assembled on then broug lit within the casing part 43 and in into bo'ss-l t toreceive the adjacent end cf the after which nut 23 is threaded" shaft, The shaft is then rotatablysupported at its e'nds in bo'ss l'l'and socket'nut ztz 'Wh'ei eitis desired to mount sn'elled hooks hav in'g snells of different lengths in the container,

the guard3] may b'eomitted and two 'orc more and-46' in Figure '8,

discs, as indicated at M, '45 maybe r'nounted on the rod 2i at respectively difier'ent distancesfrom the body 2 2' andzthese discs are provided withlperipheral notches which are sufiiciently narrow, asparticularlyillustrated 4 in Figure '7, to bindingly engage the snells near the ends of the latter remote from the corresponding hooks.

The hooks are mounted in the receptacle by placing the hook shanks in the grooves 28 in the body 22 and engaging the hook points in the end of the body adjacent the end wall H of the casing. The hook snells are then drawn in a direction away from the hooks through thegrooves 29 in the disc "23, through the bristles 'i43 on the disc 40 and are then engaged near their ends opposite the hooks in the notches 33 of the disc 32, the shaft, cylinder and disc assembly being rotated towering thegrucves and notches to the open side which the assembly is mounted. lf the'guard 3'! is used, the guard will bezprogressively rotated around the disc 32 as the snells are engaged in the notches progressively After all of the hooks are mounted in the receptacle, the two parts of the receptacle are snapped tdgether and the h'odk's of the casing .part in 11125 them be transported W'iliholit becoming 611- The invention may bee" bathed in other sp'e= cific' forms without depart ng irorh thes'p'irit or essential characteristics thereof.

all respects illustrative and-riot instinctive, the

scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and an changes which come within the meanin aiiu range or equivalenc er the; claims 'a'r'e, therefore, intended 'to be embraced therein.

tii-hat'isclaiine'd is; V p l. In a'rec'eptacle'for fishho'oks having barbed crooks and snells, a fed, an 'elong'atedcyliridrical body of'pe'netrable mat'erial axially circu'r'np'osetl on said rod adjacent one endof said' rod, said cylindrical body haying a first end spaced from said one endof th'er'o'd and being formed with ci'lfifimflefitl'ally spaced ldllgitlldifial g lfb'oife s, the barbed c'ro'oks of hooks being adaptedto" impaled in said "firstflenu or the "cylindrical body With the the l'l DO kS rig a'gd in Said gl'O O'VeS', 'SBiiddylllldlibail body having Se 06nd; end; a first disc circiirripose'd' on saidrod engaging said second end of said cylindrical body,

amet'erthan said second diso, -an: 'a'nnula'r "row 'of V projecting radially outwardly Y fromthe' periphery "of said: intermediate disc for portions of shells be=- tweenthe portions engaged-in thenotches' of said first and second discs, and retaining means on said second disc-for releasably holding snells bristles: onand engagingand positioning the notches'of said second disc.

The present embodiments therefore, to be cons'idere l'irl d' sp'ac'ed said first aiid 2. In a receptacle for fish hooks having barbed crooks and snells, a rod, an elongated cylindrical body of penetrable material axially circumposed on said rod adjacent one end of said rod, said cylindrical body having a first end spaced from said one end of the rod and being formed with circumferentially spaced longitudinal grooves, the barbed crooks of hooks being adapted to be impaled in said first end of the cylindrical body with the shanks of the hooks engaged in said grooves, said cylindrical body having a second end, a first disc circumposed on said rod and engaging said second end of said cylindrical body, said first disc being formed with peripheral notches registered with the grooves of said cylindrical body for receiving portions of snells of hooks, a second disc circumposed on said rod adjacent the other end thereof, said second disc being substantially smaller in diameter than said first disc, said second disc being formed with peripheral notches for receiving portions of snells of hooks engaged in the notches of the first disc, an intermediate disc circumposed on said rod at a point between and spaced from said first and second discs, said intermediate disc being smaller in diameter than said first disc and larger in diameter than said second disc, an annular row of bristles on and projecting radially outwardly from the periphery of said intermediate disc for engaging and positioning portions of snells between the portions engaged in the notches of said first and second discs, and retaining means on said second disc for releasably holding snells in the notches of said second disc, said retaining means comprising a discontinuous ring of channel cross section surrounding said second disc and rotatably receiving the peripheral edge portion of said second disc.

ORRIN ELWOOD ANDERSON.

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